Word Finder - locals

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A person who lives near a given place.

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It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

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A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

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I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

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A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

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The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

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One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

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I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.

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A locally scoped identifier.

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Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

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An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

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An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.

The majority of the bikers remained on the course and with college recessed, the streets held only a few locals, waiting for the later rush of the 2,000 riders who'd roll into town.

Some of the locals she knew from her frequent visits seated themselves before Sean at the bar.

The locals get their own coffee.

The beer garden is popular among locals, as is the excellent restaurant, which serves delicious Bavarian specialities.

Guests and locals alike are tempted by our excellent dim sum.

The project employed 2,500 people, including 300 expatriates and 2,200 locals.

We leave them for the locals.

Not really, I usually stay away from locals.

In recent years, the government, in an effort to formalize access and camping in the area, had instituted a fee program, creating considerable controversy with a number of locals.

The farmers market was teeming with the locals and makeshift booths lining a cordoned off section of the beach town nearby.

Tourists and locals alike bartered with vendors, and he entered a tiny silver shop, where he sensed the Immortal he sought.

Innovative locals, resting in the doldrums of off-season winter, noticed that when the large, ancient pipe leaked, escaping water coated the high walls of the gorge in spectacular ice.

Most locals maneuvered their jeeps, Subarus or pickup trucks on the sparsely traveled roads with little notice of the winter deposits.

Locals would have found Willoughby's in ten minutes—not a half-hour.

The inn is justly popular with locals and visitors alike for its hospitality, well-kept ales and great food.

The settlers are trying to displace the locals from whole swathes of land, and the author blames their failure on a universal apostasy.

The shots showing Iraqis being brutalized by their American captors must have shocked the locals in Land of the Free.

Apparently, rat catchers were held in high esteem in the community due to the locals ' fear of the Black Plague.

The cave was used as a chapel by the locals who are largely catholic.

You can also explore caverns where locals collect swallow nests to make their bird's nest soup.

Boston, one of the oldest seaports in America, makes what the locals consider the finest clam chowder in the United States.

Perhaps Scotland's cutest icon, these friendly & photogenic coos hide a national secret closely guarded by locals!

Many locals celebrate the festivity by way of donning elaborate costumes & parading through the town streets.

Unfortunately the locals cooked up a foul concoction of chickens and recently caught crayfish from the local toilet bowl masquerading as a lake.

Many locals feel that Oxford needs a face-lift to prevent people from traveling outside the city for good shopping.

Its traditional, cozy and friendly interior and roaring log fires attract both locals and visitors alike.

Expats and locals The locals are young and friendly, even flirtatious.

Head to the main square, where locals, dressed in traditional Canarian costume, perform folk dances.

You'll be enticed into boutiques where polite locals offer island handicrafts.

That is why locals actually refer to Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwllgwyngyll which means the Church of Mary by the pool of the white hazel.

Its economic prosperity was largely thanks to the good fishing and for many hundreds of years the locals have exported salt herring.

Most locals agree the stories are just a load of old hogwash.

Maybe a number of people here are second homers, pricing the locals out of the market.

It feels great and am deeply honored that the locals still stand for my nonsense.

The road was very busy with traffic, with much hooting of horns, obviously a very popular weekend route for locals.

To find the truly inspirational rides, you'll need to ask the locals.

It is difficult to think of anything more likely to arouse the ire of the locals than intimately searching their homes for weapons.

Its famous markets attract thousands of locals and tourists and sell everything from new and second-hand clothes, to 70s music and 50s kitsch.

We passed round a knoll to find a group of locals in the field.

The school used to compete in marathons against local boys with which the locals used to win.

Bottled water To prevent locals refilling bottles of water from their restaurant sinks only drink sparkling water and as above use a sanitary straw.

The locals say that you do not have to ski the same piste twice in a week.

What its name seeking redemption would the morning locals.

But the ex-Soviet republic is a country of surprises, with good restaurants, cool bars and friendly locals notable amid the poverty.

The opening of such a fast-food restaurant certainly caused a commotion among the locals.

The B has always received much attention from the locals, which of course have been deprived of classic roadsters.

I hate to place for locals of herring roe about the sorts.

They are being given a send-off by the Boy Scouts and a group of subdued locals.

Michel lived in the village and was thought by the locals to be rather simple-minded but they were missing the point.

Merely walking around the streets with a professional camera prompts disapproving tuts from locals.